Self-perceived mental health and job satisfaction among Lithuanian dentists

Industrial Health

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 247-252

  Puriene, Alina ^a   Aleksejuniene, Jolanta ^b   Petrauskiene, Jadvyga ^c   Balciuniene, Irena ^a   Janulyte, Vilija ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Burn out; Dentists; Depression; Job satisfaction; Mental health; Nervousness; Occupational hazards

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENTAL PRACTICE; DENTIST; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; LITHUANIA; LONELINESS; MENTAL HEALTH; NERVOUSNESS; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM;

ADULT; AGED; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; DENTISTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; LITHUANIA; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; SELF CONCEPT; WORKLOAD;

EID: 46049101978     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.46.247     Document Type: Article

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